Example sentences of "to make a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to make a gradual move from being Charlene from next door to being Kylie . |
| 2 | The ’ other details ’ in the rule , which were left unspecified above , are to help best-rule to make a good choice of rule . |
| 3 | No politician , whether a great magnate intent on retaining a traditional dominance in his region , a minister of the crown seeking favourable returns for his administration , or a landowner merely wishing to make a good figure in his own county , could manage without access to patronage with which to reward his friends ' loyalty by helping them in their times of need . |
| 4 | To make a good pound of cheese , ingredients are 4 pints of ordinary full cream milk , 1 teaspoons of junket rennet ( liquid , not powder ) and a little salt . |
| 5 | Happily it was rare to be as unfortunate as Dooley on the field , but few were able to make a good career in the game . |
| 6 | And perhaps most fundamental of all , we have to try to live and teach according to our ideals , and to promote them , whilst at the same time trying to make a good career within a system that seems at many points to be based on quite antagonistic values . |
| 7 | Even those students intending to make a good copy of their rough essay may plan their writing . |
| 8 | Their function now is to make a good job of delivering the railway services that the PTEs and sectors want to buy from them . |
| 9 | Although Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 ) , which seldom got beyond being a plodding , picturesque illustration of Thomas Hardy 's novel , failed to make an impact in the USA , Picker somehow had confidence that the cultured , softly-spoken , bald 42-year-old Englishman would be able to make a good job of the essentially New York story of Midnight Cowboy . |
| 10 | Anyone can be a biological mother , but it takes a professional woman to make a good job of it . |
| 11 | A fixed position allows the use of a tripod and , for the first time in this Christmas video shoot , the use of an extension microphone to enable you to make a good job of recording all those fascinating speeches that tend to be made after the second or third glass of wine . |
| 12 | Daniel never had time — nor , truly , inclination — to make a good job of the painting . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got a visitor coming at six o'clock and I want to make a good impression on him — it 's twenty to four already . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't be selfish ; do n't live to make a good impression on others ’ ( Philippians 2:3 in the Living Bible ) . |
| 15 | But if you want to make a good impression on examiners , prospective employers or clients , the mastery of our unreasonable orthography is a necessity . |
| 16 | It was mainly to make a good impression on the new tribe . |
| 17 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 18 | The Marchioness of Blandford has been moved to a private hospital as she continues to make a good recovery from a riding accident . |
| 19 | Ingres Windows 4GL , well received as a graphical , object-oriented 4GL development tool , but with a surprisingly low profile for a two year old product , is expected to make a two-stage move towards supporting multiple databases , with announcements about a middleware product expected next month . |
| 20 | MICHAEL Grade , head of Channel 4 , is to make a concerted attack on the movie world supremacy of television presenter Barry Norman . |
| 21 | ‘ Touring on my own was good crack , but I wanted security and it was time to make a serious decision about the future — whether to become a lawyer ( and I had already started applying for jobs ) or to take a more businesslike approach to the music . ’ |
| 22 | When Jack left MGM to make a serious foray into acting , he took the advice of the cartoonists Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera and joined the Players Ring Theatre and began acting lessons . |
| 23 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 24 | So far , they 've failed to make a serious dent in the all-important college music scene , essential if a so-called ‘ alternative ’ band wants to crack America ( and keep their US record deal ) . |
| 25 | He chose to make a serious attempt at integrating scientific and religious perspectives , even though his clerical critics would almost certainly not have welcomed the intrusion of science into their domain . |
| 26 | He is probably rich enough , with or without San Miguel , to make a serious bid for the presidency . |
| 27 | As we have seen , it appears that , despite his own obsessions , Hitler was politically aware from an early date — perhaps as early as 1923 — that a wider currency than anti-Semitism was needed to distinguish the NSDAP from the purely sectarian politics of other völkisch groups , to extend the Party 's appeal , and to make a serious bid for power . |
| 28 | The intention to make a graphic verisimilitude of appearance has no virtue in itself , nor does it seem to me to be the most important reason for spending long hours working directly from the subject . |
| 29 | In the end , Mr Hurd had to make a joking reference to Mr Clarke 's audacity . |
| 30 | The second requires the child to make a verbal response to either a verbal or a non-verbal stimulus and is used as a measure of the child 's ability to produce spoken language . |